Legal Counsel, Technology

Trust is the first of a new breed of banks in Singapore – digitally native and focused on delivering a delightful customer experience.  You will work in a fast-paced and collaborative environment to solve new and interesting challenges each day. Together with our Trust team, you will help shape the future of our bank.  

As a Legal Counsel, Technology you'd be able to work on and solve many interesting challenges which we are facing, learn new ways of working, and help build delightful high quality products for our customers.  

Job Description 
This role is for a lawyer with a technology focus, reporting directly to the Chief Legal Officer and Company Secretary. Your focus will be to support the business, operations, and tech teams on contracts with third parties (including with group entities) to support Trust and its customer value proposition. You will help with the overall strategy in these areas and be a key decision maker for the legal team. You will also be required to do the heavy lifting as an individual contributor on our lean and enthusiastic team. In addition to your technology focus, you will also work on other legal matters, including supporting one of our banking products, and on other general legal matters. We are an all-hands-on-deck kind of team, and we are all therefore “general” counsels in work that we cover – not specialised on a singular area.

The Role Responsibility: 

• First point of contact on legal team for the business for any third-party contracts (including with group entities), lead these contract negotiations, drafting, and suggest solutions whenever possible
• Coordinate workflow of contracts to be signed, including assigning contracts to others on the legal team
• Provide updates to the business on overall status of legal contract workstream
• Provide legal advice, drafting and transactional support to the business with a focus on third-party contracts and retail banking
• Assist in the development and periodic review of standard bank documentation, including templates, policies, and procedures.
• Provide innovative and commercially minded legal support for third-party contracts, the development of new products and product governance
• Work with other functions (including Compliance and Risk) to ensure that robust diligence processes, documentation, and pre and post governance are properly embedded
• Ensure material legal risks are identified and appropriately mitigated
• Manage and support legal and regulatory risks in the selling of at least one of Trust’s products
• Interface with Compliance colleagues on regulatory issues
• Manage external counsel (when needed), including providing instructions and negotiating fee structures
• Develop and maintain good relationships with internal and external business stakeholders ensuring an open and cooperative environment
• Provide advice, briefings, recommendations and reports on material legal risks and issues to stakeholders
• Suggest, coordinate and lead training activities for other lawyers in the team (and the wider group) from time to time

Role Specific Technical Competencies:

Our Ideal Candidate: 

• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate at all levels
• Comfortable working in a fast paced, ever-changing environment
• Singapore qualified lawyer with at least 5 years’ experience
• Comfortable with difficult and new laws, regulations, and practices, always with a can-do, solutions driven attitude
• Experience in and understanding of retail products and/or technology products
• Proven record of finding solutions and innovative thinking
• Understanding of risk management techniques
• Strong analytical and innovative legal skills
• Sound judgment on business practices and reputational risk
• Personal authority and integrity with proven ability to establish relationships and exert influence at all levels
• An inquisitive approach to practices, procedures, and specific transactions
• Exemplary integrity, ethics, independence, and resilience
• Interest in and understanding of the developing Fintech environment, engagement of Fintech companies and implementing various commercial and cooperation models with third parties.

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Come as you are! Trust is an inclusive and open-minded workplace. If you are smart and good at what you do, that’s what we care about. So come as you are. 😊

Trust is an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind. We are committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Trust are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to age, gender, physical ability, race, religion or belief, family or parental status, sexuality, or any other status protected by laws or regulations. We will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. We encourage applicants of all ages.